On 21/06/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/21/06, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the lord's book was written originally in Greek!
While we are on the subject of pedantry.... The Lord's book is not
really a book.
1. It is more of a collection of several short stories (the gospels).
In other words, it is several books in condensed form. Sort of the
Reader's Digest of its day, I presume.
That would only be the New Testament. The old testament was written in
Hebrew (mostly). In addition to stories, there's poetry, songs,
letters, soft-porn and one of St John's really bad trips.
2. Some of the individual short stories were written in Aramaic.
3. Your version of what the Lord's book is depends on which
denomination you belong to. The Catholic Lord's book is different from
the Anglican one, etc.
The Catholics use a Bible with a number of extra books, but pretty
much everyone else uses a common Bible. They just pick and choose to
read whichever bits suit them best.
-- b
